On this day:
1542: Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, then capital of Portuguese India
1909: Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case in Calcutta, India
1994: The Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom with France is opened
Born on this day:
1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist
Gone on this day:
1859: Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer, explorer
1862: Henry David Thoreau, American writer, philosopher
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